‘Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California’
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October 23, 06:02 PM GMT
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30,000 - 50,000 USD
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25,000 USD
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Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
‘Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California’
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and date '1979' in ink, on the reverse, framed
image: 14¾ by 19⅜ in. (37.6 by 49.2 cm.)
frame: 24 by 30 in. (61 by 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1944, printed in 1979.
Weston Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea
Private collection, Texas (acquired from the above in the 1980s)
By descent to the present owner
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This Is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), pp. ii-iii
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), unpaginated
Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 77
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 99
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 162
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 262
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 38
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 275
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 25
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 6.12
Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1993), p. 66
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 85
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 245
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 115
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 128
Jeff Putman & Genny Smith, eds., Deepest Valley: Guide to Owens Valley (Bakersfield, 2014), cover and frontispiece
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.4
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